Daily Border Bulletin - Alabama back in the news, A look at the nativist movement, and new info on Operation Gunrunner

Drafters of Alabamas immigration law and the states attorney general claim that while the law is intended to drive immigrants from the state, it is not meant to stop children from going to school. When in fact the law is designed to test a supreme court law, which actually makes it unconstitutional to deny anyone access to public education.

With reports that crops in Alabama are rotting on the vine, and the state failing to get even criminals to pick the crops, comedian Stephen Colbert weighs in.

Also concerning crops rotting on the vines, a New York Times editorial explores the complex issues of labor shortages and harsh anti-immigration laws through the prism of Congressional legislation designed to provide farmers with more worker visas.

Finally New facts regarding the Fast and Furious program reveal that President Bush's Operation Gunrunner did not work with Mexico's government, as had been previously reported.

Colbert on Alabama: With reports that crops in Alabama are rotting on the vine, and the state failing to get even criminals to pick the crops, comedian Stephen Colbert weighs in. You can watch the video here, and be sure to read this report, referenced in Colbert's skit, on Georgia's own crop problem as a result of their own home grown anti-immigrant law.